Category Added in CBCreate via browser drag and drop is then deleted.

Hi there,

I have a custom module that has CBCreate and CBAddVersionPost callbacks to add a specific category and default some attributes in it. This worked fine in CS 10.0 but fails in 10.5 when a user uses Drag and Drop View in the browser.

From my code logging I can see that it all runs and the category gets added and the attributes are defaulted. However, when I view the Categories tab the category isn’t present.

I eventually tracked it down to where WebDAV implements the category inheritance after the node create is completed. It does this through a call to attrdata.DBPut which in turn calls attrdata_DBPut.

In 10.0, _DBPut just inserted the inherited data. In 10.5, _DBPut deletes the existing attribute data before inserting the new data, thus deleting what has just been inserted by my customisation.

So the question I have is, what to do? I can’t see any standard mechanism for intercepting from this point on to enforce my additional category and its default values. Any thoughts or ideas on how I might address this would be appreciated.

Thanks

Rob

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Could it anyway be connected to the "Personal Staging Rule" enforcement in the WebDav module.What I meant was when webdav was introduced many years ago the user who drags and drops get a chance to "finalize" the object.If I rememebr correctly a WF assignment is created for the user who says 'Yay/Nay' to the metadata .

I have no access to webdav enabled 10.5 but thought of just mentioning this.

Or maybe you can insert the values into your own schema when the callback fires and do a async process?

anyways wait for David T or Kyle S to tell you if the code indeed changed implementation.

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On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 3:28 AM, eLink Entry: Content Server Development Forum <development@elinkkc.opentext.com> wrote:

Category Added in CBCreate via browser drag and drop is then deleted. Posted byrob.vanderpoel@techtonics.co.nz (Vanderpoel, Rob)On 09/21/2015 04:25 AM

Hi there,I have a custom module that has CBCreate and CBAddVersionPost callbacks to add a specific category and default some attributes in it. This worked fine in CS 10.0 but fails in 10.5 when a user uses Drag and Drop View in the browser.From my code logging I can see that it all runs and the category gets added and the attributes are defaulted. However, when I view the Categories tab the category isn’t present.I eventually tracked it down to where WebDAV implements the category inheritance after the node create is completed. It does this through a call to attrdata.DBPut which in turn calls attrdata_DBPut.In 10.0, _DBPut just inserted the inherited data. In 10.5, _DBPut deletes the existing attribute data before inserting the new data, thus deleting what has just been inserted by my customisation.So the question I have is, what to do? I can’t see any standard mechanism for intercepting from this point on to enforce my additional category and its default values. Any thoughts or ideas on how I might address this would be appreciated.ThanksRob
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Thanks Appu, yes the personal staging caught me out with the initial development. The CBCreate callback didn't work on its own with drag and drop which is why I had to add the CBAddVersionPost callback.

Rob